Spring 2016 sees the launch of the Shadow Matching Scheme intended to provide professional services staff with job shadowing opportunities across the University to better understand the impact of their own work, and the work of others.

The scheme works on the basis of a reciprocal arrangement over the course of 3 half days between professional staff in academic schools and colleagues in central service departments. It will start with a launch event on 20 April 2016 where the scheme will be introduced. Each shadower will then get an opportunity to shadow the other in turn in their place of work.

This new scheme is part of the “Excellence through partnerships” enhancement theme of the ‘Excellence Initiative’, which The Academic Division has been running since 2012.  The Initiative is for all administrative staff in the University’s Academic Schools and Central Service Departments, alongside the Faculties Support Office, and is aimed at celebrating and enhancing the service delivered by administrative staff to students and academics as well as to other professional colleagues.

Registration for the Shadow Matching Scheme is now open to professional staff in schools, where they will be able to apply for various shadowing opportunities offered by central departments. Apply here

More information about this scheme and others is available on the NEW Excellence Initiative website – the go-to place for all professional staff in schools to learn about the various projects which have been put in place under the Excellence Initiative since its launch.